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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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References: <1131@stewart.UUCP> <1991Jun15.032812.15122@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <rkushner.8493@sycom.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 15:19:30 GMT

In article <rkushner.8493@sycom.UUCP> rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes:
>
>Lets say it costs $27 million to engineer the custom chips from a clean sheet
>design. With only 12,000 Amiga 3000's sold, it would cost $2166 per unit just
>to pay off the engineering, not including added production costs of making
>different parts. Lets say only 300 people go for this option? Commodore has
>lost $20++ million dollars on this pet project. Sure it makes the Amiga look
>better in a few eyes, it will add a feature no one will support in their
>software because it wasn't done across the line. Any improvement to the custom
>chips, other than 32 bit wide bus, will have to be done across the line to pay
>for itself, and for people to support it.  And it probably will break the
>Toaster again, and then we see a bizillion messages on the net about how
>Commodore screwed up again...
>
	Where do you get the 12,000 A3000 sales figure? Any place
official, rumor, or guesswork?
	-- Ethan

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